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Director: K. Belyanchikov (1960) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
A. V. Istomin, Chief, Rolling-Mill Section 
B. V. Kirilov, Chief Engineer of General Designs of Blast Furnaces 
K. Kostenetskiy, Chief of Mechanization Section 
N. K. Leonidov, Chief of Blast Furnace Section 
A. I. Lotarev, Designer of the Blast Furnace Section 
V. M. Piskarev, Chief Engineer 
P. Shiryayev, Chief Economist 
Description: 
This institute deals with the design of metallurgical plants and 
processes. Design of rolling mills, production of arc-welded tubes, mechani- 
zation and automation of transport and handling operations in iron and steel 
plants, and development of electromagnetic pump systems and open-hearth 
furnaces number among the areas embraced by this institute. 
Branches include those at Chelyabinsk; Dnepropetrovsk, where 
conveyor-belt supply of materials to blast-furnace shops is of special 
interest (Director - M. B. Rozenshtrakh) ; Leningrad, which treats production 
of basic Bessemer steel; Magnetogorsk, which studies conveyor-belt systems; 
Nizhniy-Tagil*; and Sverdlovsk; and the Ukrainian. 
SD 
Name: State Institute for Planning Nonferrous Metallurgical Enterprises 
(Gosudarstvennyy institut po proyektirovaniyu predpriyatiy 
promyshlennosti tsvetnykh metallov--Giprotsvetmet ) 
Address: Moscow, Smolenskaya Sennaya ploshchad', 30 
Director: -- 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: State Economic Council, U.S.S.R. (1961) 
Selected Staff Members: G. A. Sedova 
Description: 
Giprotzvetmet is one of the many mining and metallurgical institutes 
founded during the post-revolution period. Its research is centered primarily 
on the design and technological improvement of processes in ore concentration 
